cartouches needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 767 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartouches is the highest-scoring word from cartouches, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 767 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cartouches — and it is cartouches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cartouches turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cartouche, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartouches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crotches. For points, the strongest plays are caroches, cartouch, catchers, catechus, coachers, couchers, cratches, crochets, crotches, crouches, crutches, and scutcher — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cartouches produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with authors, catches, coaches, coaster, couches, scratch, and touches. For points, the strongest plays are cachets, cachous, caroche, catcher, catches, catechu, coacher, coaches, coucher, couches, crochet, curches, cutches, scratch, and succoth — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cartouches turns up 138 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accuse, actors, author, caters, charts, cheats, and chores. For points, the strongest plays are caches, cachet, cachou, caroch, cratch, crotch, crouch, crutch, scorch, scotch, scutch, and succah — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 214 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartouches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, autos, cares, carts, catch, cater, and cause. For points, the strongest plays are cache, catch, chocs, coach, couch, curch, and cutch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cartouches produces 201 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, auto, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest play is choc — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cartouches turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ash, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartouches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
cartouches is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cartouches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
cartouches is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cartouches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cartouches, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cartouches earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cartouches produce 767 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 138 six-letter words, 214 five-letter words, 201 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.